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A few people have emailed me recently after receiving a notification from the site that someone has tried and failed to access their account. If someone gets their password wrong five times in a row the account is locked for 15 minutes so as far as I know, nobody has yet had their password guessed.

But it's a good reminder of how important it is to choose a password that's secure.

If any of you are using a password that is guessable, I'd recommend that you change it to something less so. For example, if your password is a single common word, even simply inserting a single punctuation character somewhere in it would help enormously. Changing "password" to "pas$word" makes it very much harder for a computer to guess.

I don't know what these hackers might achieve by hijacking someone else's account when they could register their own account easily, but it's better to be safe. If you've got any questions then please let me know.

Last edited by Ben on Sun 24 Jan 10 17:01; edited 1 time in total. [2 %]--------------------Blue-with-white-stripes 1976 manual L82 since 1995
"A stiff upper lip is always well dressed when accompanied by mountains of torque and an indomitable will." -unsprung

There's always some halfwit out there who'll do this kind of stuff for the sake of it.
They're just keeping you on your toes Ben, well done for spotting it.
Your're keeping our borders safe, just like Jack Nicholson in a 'A Few good men'!
Good to see your resto's coming along nicely Ben, looking forward to the finished article sometime in the near future....

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